Vol 18. No. 35

This Number was published 21 Feb.
1818. An original subscriber, Anne Cleaver, entered in
her copy the date '1818'. It was Cleaver's regular
practice to indicate the date she received her copy whenever
an issue of the QR was published significantly after
the date on the title page date [Courier
advertisement, 21 Feb. 1818; Cleaver's copy in the present
writer's collection]

Gifford hoped to have published by
the opening of Parliament, 8 Feb. [Murray MS., WG to
Robert William Hay, 1 Dec. 1817]

This Number sold 12,071 on the
first day [Harewood MS., WG to George Canning 27 Mar.
1818]

Starting with this Number, Murray
increased the remuneration for articles from 10 to 20 guineas
per sheet for 'every article of merit or interest'
[Harewood MS., WG to George Canning, 21 Feb. 1818] Twenty
guineas is worth approximately £850 in today's money
(see online resource, How Much is that Worth Today?).

Robert W. Hay appears to have had
an article in this Number [Murray MS., WG to Robert
William Hay, 1 Sept. 1817, 1 Dec. 1817, and 5 Jan.
1818]

Barron Field offered an article on
the Botany Bay colony based on a manuscript book written by a
colonist. Cf. #535 [Murray MS., Barron Field to JM, 13
Dec. 1817]

John Barrow had three (and perhaps
four) articles in this Number

John Hookham Frere was mortified
that his Whistlecraft was not noticed in the
Quarterly Review. He thought a review of it
could well have been given and taken the place of #447, 'Sir
William Adams on Cataract.' 'What has the Quarterly to
do with cataracts,' Frere reasonably asked, 'or catheters, or
cataplasms, or with any subjects which are neither of a
political, national, or literary interest?' [quoted in
Smiles, II 22]

Important or otherwise interesting
articles in this Number include: #441, #443, #445, #446,
#451

Number of definite attributions for
this issue: 8

Number of probable or possible
attributions for this issue: 4

Number of articles for which no
suggestion of authorship is made: 1

CONTENTS,
IDENTIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTORS, AND HISTORICAL NOTES

441 Article 1. Lord Holland,
Some Account of the Lives and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega
Carpio, and Guillen de Catro, 1-46. Author: Robert Southey.

Running Title: Lord
Holland's Life and Writings of Lope de Vega.

Notes:In attributing the article to Southey, Shine cites
JM III's Register; Cottle 242-43; Southey 363, 577; Warter IV
259; and Gentleman's Magazine XXI 140. Shine says to see
also Southey 368 and Water III 78, 81. Shine quotes from
BL MS. 28603 [no folio number given], Robert Southey to William
Peachey, 24 Mar. 1818: 'You may have traced me in the account
of Lope de Vega in the last QR.'

The following evidence is published
here for the first time. The article is in Southey's definitive
MS. list of his QR articles.

The subject of this article was
reviewed in ER #326, Oct. 1806, by Francis
Jeffrey.

JM III's Register: attribution to
Southey, but without evidence.

442 Article 2. Wilks, Historical
Sketches of the South of India; in an Attempt to trace the
History of Mysoor; from the Origin of the Hindoo Government of
that State to the Extinction of the Mahomedan Dynasty in
1799. Vols. ii and iii, 47-73. Author: John Barrow.

Running
Title: Wilks's Sketches of the South of
India.

Notes:In the absence of guidance from JM III's Register,
Shine does not suggest an author for this article.

The following evidence was first
published in VPR 28. The first sentence of the article
contains a specific reference to #160, a review by Barrow of
Wilks's first volume and article #442 fulfills the promise of
the author of #160 to review Wilk's additional volumes when
they are published. There is also a specific reference on p.48
to #160. In his QR articles, it was Barrow's
signature practice to refer to his own works. On pp.72-73, the
author of #442 states he is a friend of the late Sir George
Staunton. Staunton was Barrow's patron and Barrow was a close
friend to Staunton's son. The topic of the article is Barrow's
preserve.

The subject of this article was
reviewed in ER #568, Aug. 1811, by Alexander
Hamilton.

443 Article 3. [Stendhal,] The
Lives of Haydn and Mozart; with Observations on the Genius of
Metastasio, and the present State of Music in France and
Italy. Translated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet. With
Notes by the Author of the Sacred Melodies,
73-99. Author: Isaac
D'Israeli, possibly, and possibly with John Ireland.

Running
Title:Lives of Haydn and Mozart.

Notes:In the absence of guidance from JM III's Register,
Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.

The following evidence, published
here for the first time, draws weak but interesting connections
to D'Israeli and Ireland and gives reason to believe that the
article is not by Dr. Burney. Murray MS., WG to JM, [1818
watermark]: 'I cannot complete the revise until I receive Mr.
D'Israeli. I wished Dr. Ireland to see it ....' Note the
comment on p.80: 'We knew Haydn, and well remember the
circumstance of his sitting for the picture' (i.e., Joshua
Reynold's portrait). The author has access to Hadyn's
correspondence (see page 97). Cf. p.87: 'music and musical
instruments of the ancients; a subject that is still involved
in considerable obscurity, notwithstanding Dr. Burney's acute
and elaborate investigation.' Note reflections on the nature of
biography (pp.82, 91), an interest of D'Israeli's. Cf. p.98:
'the history of man [i.e., biography] appears to us more
interesting than that of music' (hardly what Burney would have
said).

The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Book Loans Register: the
book reviewed was sent to 'Revd. R. Heber' on 9 June 1817.
Heber I 482: Reginald Heber to Robert Wilmot Horton, 24 Sept.
1817, says he is reviewing Southey's Brazil. The first
volume of Southey's work was reviewed in #125, by
Heber.

JM III's Register: attribution to
Heber, but without evidence.

445 Article 5. Bentham, Plan of
Parliamentary Reform, in the form of a Catechism, with reasons
for each Article; with an Introduction, shewing the necessity
of radical, and the inadequacy of moderate Reform,
128-35. Author: Robert
William Hay, possibly.

Running
Title: Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary
Reform.

Notes:In the absence of guidance from JM III's Register,
Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.

The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Robert William Hay appears to have had
an article in this Number. Murray MS., WG to Hay, 1 Sept. 1817,
refers to Hay's 'interesting article.' Murray MS., WG to Hay, 5
Jan. 1818: 'I'll keep the <?> for the Next No.' His last
known contribution is #397, published Nov. 1816. Compare Iowa
MS. (f. 290), JM to John Wilson Croker, Wednesday [n.d., but
1817 from internal evidence]: '[John William] Ward's Speech was
exceedingly happy—in wit and argument &
Eloquence—very skillfully sprinkled so as to keep
attention alive during a long speech upon an exhausted
topic—He made the most excellent use of
Bentham—which <Shaw> sent him [Bentham] the
morning after. I had sent the first copy to you—his
extracts were exceedingly good and craftily
managed[.]'

The subject of this article was reviewed
in ER #857, Dec. 1818, by James Mackintosh.

The following evidence is published
here for the first time. The article's author refers to #368
and #394, both of which are by Barrow, and article #446 is
referred to in #474, #503, #585, #705, and by way of allusion
in #667, all of which are by Barrow. In his QR
articles, it was Barrow's signature practice to refer to
his own works.

447 Article 7. Sir William Adams,
A Practical Inquiry into the Causes of the frequent Failure
of the Operation of Depression, and of the Extraction of the
Cataract, as usually performed; with the Description of a
Series of new and improved Operations, by the practice of which
most of these Causes of Failure may be avoided. Illustrated by
Tables of the comparative success of the new and old modes of
practice, 158-68. Author:
David Uwins, possibly; OR ____ Lamb, possibly; OR
Robert Gooch, possibly.

Running Title: Sir
William Adams on Cataract.

Notes: In the absence of guidance from JM III's
Register, Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.

The following evidence, published
here for the first time, offers suggestions, but the evidence
in each case is weak. Murray MS., Cash Book 1811-17, p. 174:
'11 Jan 1818 [sic] Q[UER]Y <Adam> on
Constitutional Diseases sent to Dr. Uwin Thavies Inn'. Murray
MS., Cash Day Book 1817-1819: debit entry re QR '11 Jan.
1817 to Lamb, on Constitutional diseases - 5.6' Gooch
also wrote in the QR on medical matters, but at a later
date.

John Hookham Frere was mortified
that his Whistlecraft was not noticed in the QR.
He thought a review of it could well have taken the place of
this article. 'What has the Quarterly to do with
cataracts,' Frere reasonably asked, 'or catheters, or
cataplasms, or with any subjects which are neither of a
political, national, or literary interest?' [quoted in Smiles,
II 22]

Notes:In the absence of guidance from JM III's Register,
Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.

The following evidence is published
here for the first time. There is a specific reference on p.
175 and n. to #438, which is by Barrow. In his QR
articles, it was Barrow's signature practice to refer to
his own works. The article is much in Barrow's style. Robert
William Hay appears to have had an article in this Number
[Murray MS., WG to Robert Hay, 1 Dec. 1817, and 5 Jan. (1818)].
Murray MS., WG to Robert William Hay, 1 Sept. 1817, refers to
Hay's 'interesting article.' His last known contribution is
#397, published Nov. 1816.

The subject of this article was reviewed
in ER #842, Sept. 1818, by Richard Chenevix. Chenevix was a
frequent contributor to the QR.

449 Article 9. Godwin,
Mandeville: a Tale of the seventeenth Century in
England, 176-77. Author: John Wilson Croker.

The following additional evidence
is published here for the first time. Claimed by Croker in six
of his Clements Library MS. lists and included in the Cambridge
University bound volumes of Croker's articles.

JM III's Register: attribution to
Croker, citing unspecified letters.

450 Article 10. Kendall, An
Argument for construing largely the Right of an Appellee of
Murder, to insist on Trial by Battle; and also for abolishing
Appeals. Second Edition, revised and enlarged, 177-98.
Author not identified.

Running
Title:Appeal of Murder and Trial by
Battle.

Notes: In the absence of guidance from JM III's
Register, Shine does not suggest an author for this
article.

The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS. Cash Day Book
1817-1819, debit entry for Saturday, 21 Feb. 1818, sent 'to W
B': 'Brandreths Trials 2 vols. / Watsons Trials 8vo / Hones'
Trials 3 pts' Murray MS., WG to Robert William Hay, 1
Dec. 1817, says he hopes the next Number will be out by opening
of Parliament (8 Feb.). States that Hay's prospective article
bears a relation to Hay's other 'present elegant & pleasing
Art.' Harewood MS., WG to George Canning, March 27 [1818
watermark] 'I will take care to let our coy friend know your
opinion. He is now in Scotland .... He was, of course,
handsomely paid....' Possibly William Macleod Bannatyne
(1743-1833; DNB), although unlikely as he was a Scottish
judge.

451 Article 11. Chappell,
Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay, in His
Majesty's Ship Rosamond, containing some Account of the
North-eastern Coast of America, and of the Tribes inhabiting
that remote Region, 199-223. Author: John Barrow.

The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Barrow's series of articles in the
QR on polar exploration includes #451, #461, #474, #503,
#585, #667, #705, #97WI, and #163WI. Of these
articles, #451 is specifically referred to in #474, #503, #585,
#705, and by way of allusion in #667. Cf. #406. At pages 233
and 265 of #705, the author of the article specifically alludes
to his former articles in the QR on Captain Ross (#451
and #503). In his QR articles, it was Barrow's
signature practice to refer to his own works.

[Bookseller's note on Anthony Lockwood,
A Brief Description of Nova Scotia, with Plates of the
Principal Harbors; including a Particular Account of the Island
of Grand Manan. (1818). 'Prepared from records in the
office of the surveyor-general of Nova Scotia. The appendix,
pp103-134, contains an excerpt from the Quarterly Review, Oct.
1817, a review of Arctic Exploration and plans for the
expedition of Capt. John Ross, to explore a northwest passage
beyond Davis Strait.']

The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Claimed by Croker in five of his
Clements Library MS. lists and included in the Cambridge
University bound volumes of Croker's articles.

JM III's Register: attribution to
Croker, but without evidence.

453 Article 13. Anecdotes of the
Life of Richard Watson, D.D., Bishop of Landaff, written
by himself at different intervals, and revised in 1814.
Published by his Son, Richard Watson, LL.B. Prebendary
of Landaff and Wells. 229-53. Author: Thomas Dunham Whitaker.

Running
Title:Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of
Landaff.

Notes:In attributing the article to Whitaker, Shine
cites Nichols xxix and Gentleman's Magazine XXI 141.
Shine also quotes from Murray MS., WG to JM, [Aug. 1818]:
'...Dr W ... I regard as the best and most forcible painter of
character in the country. His Watson, though it was improperly
timed, ... is the most striking Art. that I have seen on the
subject ....'

The following evidence is published
here for the first time. Murray MS., Book Loans Register:
Bishop Burnet's Memorial was sent to 'Revd. Dr Whitaker'
on 12 Apr. 1815 (Burnet and Watson are compared on pp.230,
259-60).

Watson's Memoirs was the
subject of a review in ER, #836, June 1818, by Henry
Brougham.